An end to a dramatic week with an incredible & dramatic work, so strap in & join me for LvB Choral Fantasy in c minor op.80. Played here with a young Kissin & Claudio Abbado with the baton (who died 9 years ago today.) youtu.be/uRKi4Tm0Ukg #STMS jim murray Elena de la Quintaine

STMS🇺🇦💙💛 jim murray Elena de la Quintaine Kit Chapman MBE Sean Dromgoole Guy Smith @levellerlive Sister Bex🕷luvin' the Tories' humiliating débâcle Susannah Hickling @len_hampson Len Copland John Fish 📚 💙💛 It is indeed dramatic, with 19yo pianist. Very much a dry run for a later better known work, but excellent in own right ✅️

This is the exact reason @levellerlive started STMS🇺🇦💙💛. Getting away from ridiculous political negative energy. 🙏

Sorry it’s so late, but thought would wind down for the night with William Mundy’s setting of “O Lord, the Maker of All Thing”. Sung here by The Cambridge Singers” directed by John Rutter. #STMS Elena de la Quintaine jim murray @levellerlive youtu.be/WyEKjMLxaEc?li…

To round off the week I turn to the undisputed instrument of #STMS, the clavicho……,sorry, lute. The Fairy Round - Anthony Holborne: youtu.be/MxACMcn_Al8 Couldn’t resist “musical cure against poison of tarantula” by Athanasius Kircher: youtu.be/TgHYDCI3gMc Elena de la Quintaine

For those still awake and listening to music, I give you the very underrated, in my opinion, Carl Maria von Weber and his Overture to Der Beherrscher der Geister. youtu.be/CwzCbTlmYK8 Elena de la Quintaine @levellerlive jim murray #STMS

Well, tonight I’m posting the first track from the first bassoon CD I was given. It was this CD that moved me to start playing the bassoon. Nice & jolly! Joseph Bodin de Boismortier Bassoon sonata No.1 in e minor Op.50 #STMS Elena de la Quintaine jim murray youtu.be/14O1eW0_Iz8

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Tonight, very late listening! Henry Madin’s Te Deum. Hopefully to help me march into Friday with! #STMS @levellerlive Elena de la Quintaine jim murray youtu.be/LC88V1FLkFc

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I’ve been doing some digging on Tomaso Albinoni. I really don’t understand why we don’t hear more of him than the Adagio and oboe concertos! This is taken from a great CD of cantatas youtu.be/hVkwQN1gZ4s Amor, sorte, destino Op.4 Elena de la Quintaine jim murray

This morning I’m skipping out of the horrible month of January with Wolfy’s Symphony No.7(a) in G major “Alte Lambacher”: (1) youtu.be/X3ejnP_tEoI (2) youtu.be/9VUVlIRdfaQ (3) youtu.be/ZmfGkROnjsI jim murray Elena de la Quintaine @levellerlive

Apologies music fans. I’ve been in my own world for the last few days. I’ve mainly been listening to renaissance music to keep me sane. So skipping into the weekend with some Claude (not Ricky) Gerviase youtu.be/iZ_Z294BR4Q #STMS Elena de la Quintaine jim murray

What a picture. Skin from Skunk Anansie receiving her OBE for services to music from King Charles at Buck Palace today.

I am still here. Thanks for your unwavering patience! So much to do no time to do it. I haven’t had time to research a post as normal, but finally home and to prove I still love you all I give you this treat from Agostino Steffani. youtu.be/7uekXNX3MYo Elena de la Quintaine

Superb lunch with a jolly group of music lovers at #TheBarringtonBoar today. Big thanks to Alasdair & Victoria for a great afternoon.